The Princes of Parma and The Election at Hanbury’s Theatre
Fe cheered by nobility and gentry, performances of Cumberland’s new tragedy The Princes of Parma and the play The Election were staged at Mr Hanbury’s private theatre in Kelmarth Northamptonshire. Prologue and scenes lampoon courtly manners, wealth, and dissipation, with commentary on fashion, London Banquets, and provincial anxiety over expense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fyche
Peorocue
Errolves
My. Hanbury
Kelmarth
Northamptonshire
Cikoberdalt
Ataaich
Cumberland
Parma
Merc Cra
Ifser
Gente Poule
London
Johniston
Tavistock
Folly
Gauty
Portman
Puch
The Princessora Playfare in Puritan Critique
A 18th century theater piece notes Puritan rage against the drama and defends the author’s muse. It pleads for readers to judge the drama fairly, praising virtue friendship elegance and the potential moral odor of new roses in verse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pilog
Mr. Hanbury
Dad Spoten
Epilogue On Corruption And Election Scandals
A historical verse discerns corruption in a political election, condemning bribery and the sale of offices. It laments vanity and venal gates opening to contracts and brokers, noting a shift toward virtue and order as the realm faces a decree ending corrupt practices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cumberland
Purfec
Question on influence of freeholders in election for county of W
Postscript from the Ganzrat Evenine Post presents a query to Mr Lescee about whether applying to freeholders for their interest before a county election to Parliament counts as attempting to influence votes. It questions how his word and pledge to rely on uninfluenced suffrages would be understood if such an application occurred prior to the election.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ganzrat Evenine
Lescee
Eas
Death of Sir James Hodges and Bath elegies take hold
An express from Bath reports the death of Sir James Hodges Knight Town Clerk of the city. The same dispatch notes political contests in Dunbarton where Archibald Edevonstone wins MP for the county, with Capt. Keith Elphinstone lodging a protest. Paris letters mention plans for tobacco cultivation under a new economic regime, and a sequence of ecclesiastical posts including Bishop Yorke moving to Bangor and Dr Boscawen to St Burian. Further items describe city governance woes at the quarter-sessions with aldermen failing duty, and the Lord Mayor arranging a Court of Common Council to address watch regulations and related business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
James Hodges
James
Start
Earl of Butte
Bute
Caithnes
Dunbarton
Archibald Edevonstone
Keith Elphinstone
Elphinstone
Calais
Quebec
Boston
Paris
Prince Maffarano
Count de Gaines
Eagle
Adams
Leghorn
Cape St. Vincent’s
Jae Adams
France
Yorke
Fee
Bangor
Nicholas Boscawen
William Carpenter
Boscawen
Deauty
St. Burian
Cornwall
Warbitow
Treneglop
Commerdam
Montague Burgoyne
Roger Burgoyne
George James Williams
Alderman Hopkins
Hallifax
Lee
Privy Council
Guildhall
King’s Bench
Nathaniel
Newenham
Vintry
Northing
Unsettled London crime and market notes mix
A jumble of eighteenth century items reports youths turned to crime amid social decay, prices and trade data from London markets, ship arrivals with wheat and barley, and sudden deaths. It covers vices, robberies, legals, and local commerce, with scattered notices of executions and weddings.
Prices and stock listings from a historic page
An OCR filled with mixed symbols and names lists various stocks and prices, mentioning India, banks, and financial terms. It reads like a fragment from a market page with scattered figures such as percentages and coin values, interspersed with place names and entities.
London Patent Balsam of Life marketed by Wray family
A king s patent advert promotes Turlington s Original Balsam of Life as genuine and prepared as in the inventor s lifetime. Martha Wray and Hilton Wray successors guarantee authenticity with seals and signature. It lists confirmed uses from kidney stones to digestive and respiratory ailments and urges buyers to beware counterfeits at the original warehouse in Birchin Lane London with other medicines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Church of England
Edward Wicksteed
John Hinton
King’s Arms
Paternoster-Row
Warwick-Lane
Great Britain
Ireland
Turlington
Martha Wray
Hilton Wray
Robert Turlington
King’s Arme
Birchinelane
London
Daffy's
Staughton
Squire’s
Ratgiff
Bostock
Hungary
Hooper's
Godfrey
Ahiey
Basham
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Evexine Post
Juvenal
Nemo
Turpifienus
Isle of Man
Lancashire
Westmoreland
Newcastle
Stamford Fair
Duke of Kingston
Leadenhall
Whitechapel
Southwark
Henry Welch
Justice Sherwood
St. Giles’s
Joseph Talvin
Bromley
Middlesex
Newgate
Henry Elber
John Briggs
Leeds
Bridlington
Scotland
Portchaise
York
Priscilla
James Frith
Grange
Saddleworth
Middleton-'Tyas
Leonard Hartley
Dublin
Neal Lamb
St. Nicholas Without
St. Stephen's Green
Bear-Key
Jorsra How
Witran Mansitar
Sés
Gos
India
Cone
Bozaj
Ba Wer Cg Ag Ck Co
Confor
Bank An
Navy
Ling
Lord Chesterfield
Jape
George the First
Lord Bolinbroke
Scontets
Lord Cheferfeld
Ek ii
T. Davies
Ruffel-strest
Boaldfelleé
Royal Academy
J. Bew
J. Walter
Charing-cross
Groper
Edward Wickfeed
Joan Hinton
N.B
Teye
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